Nationally we are seeing a boom in plans to expand county jails. In California alone 33 of 58 counties are planning to build new jails. I work with Nation Inside, a platform that connects and supports people who are building a movement to systematically challenge mass incarceration in the United States. Tomorrow we are partnering … Read more
I’m a tax payer, a mother, and a community member. I want to see my children and grandchildren inherit a world that is better than the one we inherited. I am a volunteer, an executive director, and an attorney. I am also formerly incarcerated. Did you know that Riverside County is steamrolling a plans forward to build 2 new “mega” jails? One … Read more
Did you know the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to seek $80 million in state funding to expand the James L. Musick jail between Irvine and Lake Forest? My name is Jennifer Alvarez and I am a senior at the University of California Irvine, studying Public Health Science with a focus on … Read more
My name is Tash Nguyen and I’m a student at UC Santa Cruz with a deep commitment to building strong communities and alternatives to incarceration. I’m also grassroots organizer with Sin Barras ‘without (prison) bars’ in spanish, a community-based group here in Santa Cruz that works to build coalitions to eradicate the prison industrial-complex. Our county is … Read more